AWARDS & RECOGNITION

2020 Canadian grocer generation next award

Sameer Bandeali
Director, E-commerce
Metro Inc.

For Sameer Bandeali, success has a lot to do with building relationships. “Being adaptable, understanding key people and key resources that I have to build relationships with, and asking the right questions so I can ramp up as quickly as possible—having that ability has been critical for success in my career thus far,” says the director of e-commerce at Metro, Inc.

While Bandeali has held his role at Metro since January 2019, his wealth of e-commerce experience includes time at Maple Leaf Foods, Walmart Canada and Cartly, an online grocery service for South Asian groceries. Since joining Metro, he’s been responsible for launching and leading Metro Ontario’s online grocery business and has worked tirelessly to help the business adapt to this new, invigorated and increasingly competitive grocery channel.

“Online grocery was a niche service pre-COVID. It’s now become more of an essential service,” says Bandeali. “Just being able to be a part of a business that’s able to help keep people a little bit safer and provide to those who are in need is definitely something that drives and motivates me daily.”